T-share

T-share is a social-collaborative platform where teachers can easily find engaging planning lessons and pedagogical resources shared by colleagues who have proven to motivate their students in their learning process, so other teachers can replicate their impact. In this way, if T-share is scaled globally, teachers will have access to the content of the best teachers around the world, so it's easier for them to adapt and evolve their classrooms in order to satisfy student's needs and promote a real change in education.

Teachers from all over the world are struggling to teach online with old-school teaching methods. In fact, according to Unesco, 81% of teachers feel unprepared to teach online. This added to the fact that 6 out of 10 teachers are feeling overworked and underappreciated (National Union of Teachers) and, on top of that, they have a wage penalty of USD 7,500 (The Global Teacher's Status Index), we can affirm that the school system is living a pandemic on its own which is negatively impacting the quality of education.

T-share is a revolutionary online platform that combines training with social media interactions to support teachers to:

• Uplevel their classes.
• Reduce their workload.
• Increase their job satisfaction.

We achieve this with our:

Community: an open collaboration platform where teachers can share and filter activities by course, subject, 21st-century skill, and additional-curricular information. Also, they can follow their favorite teachers, comment on the activities and even edit them to promote continuous improvement.

Academy: a marketplace of online courses created by universities, and other educational organizations to promote lifelong learning skills in teachers, who later share their new knowledge with the community.

Also, we give 10% of our profits to the teachers who create more value in the community, recognizing and incentivizing them to share their content in the community. 

Our solution serves directly to k-12 school teachers. The main factor why teachers don't innovate more in their classrooms is because they are feeling overworked which translates into having no time to create new material, and also because they are unmotivated to do classes differently since they don't have other professionals references of success. We understood this by interviewing and being in the classroom with more than a hundred teachers who helped us getting into this stage of T-share. Our solution addresses these issues by decreasing their workload with ready-to-use lessons provided by other teachers with proven results and increasing their motivation thanks to our incentive system, which allows them to uplevel their classes and co-create meaningful learning experiences.

T-share aligns with supporting teachers and educational institutions with teaching and learning methodologies, tools, and resources that help develop future skills for students by providing an engaged community where they can network with the best teachers from Latin America to share successful learning experiences, lesson plans, and didactic resources, and also providing the training needed to support teachers to use innovative teaching methods and incorporate technologies in their classrooms with a model that incentives and recognizes their efforts to update their teaching methods, and by creating network effects needed to truly make a larger impact in education.

Although we have 2,000 teachers using the platform. We've only received USD$40,000 of government funds to develop the platform, and we have piloted it in 14 different schools in the Metropolitan Region of Chile.

We also launched the Academy a month ago with the first online course that is generating revenue in order to validate our business model.

We provide a unique share-to-learn experience, combining training with social media interactions and incentives to uplevel teacher's skills.

As part of our business model, access to the community is free for any teachers who want to become a member, and we create different streams of revenue that allows us to give 10% of our profits to our best content/activity creators in order to scale the community of teachers.

T-share is a web platform with a search engine that's triggered by organized data shared by teachers, who can find and share curriculum-aligned learning experiences, get feedback from their peers and create online networks with the best teachers in Latin America.

Our business model relies on the data created by the teachers who via their interactions, downloads, number of followers, and rate of the activities, receive money compensations for the content shared in the platform.

Content or social media platforms like Youtube or Instagram use different algorithms that allow them to determine who and how much money a content creator receives.

Also, our platform uses different libraries in Laravel, and Angular which helped us develop the features in the platform.

All of our users are +18 years. In order to address any intellectual property concerns, we detailed the use and license of the content shared in the platform in our terms and services agreement, which teachers need to check before registering on the platform, and allow other teachers to have access to the content.

We currently serve 2.116 teachers who are part of the community. In one year, we'll be serving 10.000 teachers, and in 5 years, +1.000.000 teachers.

Our goal for the next year is to validate the platform as an effective source of pedagogical transformation for teachers. We'll achieve this by leveraging testimonials and through the validation of our business model.

For the next five years, we aim to become a global collaboration network for teacher professional development to improve the quality of education, and we'll achieve this by incorporating new curriculums into the platform, linking the content through machine learning, and creating a network of teacher ambassadors, expanding our course offer, and developing our community with events and activities.

-Number of users in the community.

-Number of teachers who finish a course.

-Number of activities shared in the platform.

- % of activities with 4+ stars rate.

Full-time staff: 2 people.

Contractors: 6 people.

The founder studied business engineering and has a master's degree in innovation and design, which led her to found Odisea, a non-profit organization that empowers children to become problem solvers through design thinking and gamification tools. Because of this experience, which helped her to deeply understand the school system and the teacher's struggles -and since 1 teacher can impact almost 2.000 students throughout their careers- in 2019 she decided to create T-share.

Also, the team is composed of our sales and operations officer, who
has experience working in the education and training industry, having
the necessary skills to leverage our value proposition to schools and
school districts and bring T-share to the next level.

Our team is female-led, and our goal is to create a company culture

where everyone feels included and encouraged to bring their unique
selves into work.

We want to learn from the experience and collaborate with other social impact leaders and have access to the MIT and TPrize network. Also, we would really appreciate receiving strategic advice from experts.

We need support to continue developing the platform and the incentive

system through data, and also the adaptation of the platform to other countries in LATAM and branding positioning.

We could partner with MIT to provide new online courses for teacher's

professional development in the platform, and also we could begin
working on our own dataset of meaningful activities for teachers to use with their students to inspire classroom innovations and the use of technology in hybrid learning.